Re: [rdiff-backup-users] librsync [Patially Solved ??]

[Daniel Crespo]

I managed to compile rdiff-backup also for cygwin in a windows 98. However,
I got a problem. Python usually hangs (windows says that it performed a
forbidden operation) "but continues". This is related with some problem with
fork() in the cygwin dll´s, supossedly solved by the rebase and rebaseall
utilities. These are found in the system package of cygwin, but the
documentation inside is quite frightening; /usr/doc/Cygwin/rebase-2.2.README
says:

Note it is *strongly* recommended that users only use rebaseall unless they
*really* know what they are doing or are instructed by one of the Cygwin
developers.

Thus I ran rebaseall with the default values, but the problem remains. Even
though, rdiff-backup works fine provided you ignore all the errors reported
by windows. Does anyone know the adequate values for rebase/rebaseall for
avoiding this malfunctioning?

Regards,

Daniel

----- Mensaje original -----
De: "Nicola Fankhauser" <address@hidden>
Para: "rdiff-backup-users" <address@hidden>
Enviado: domingo, 02 de marzo de 2003 9:41
Asunto: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] librsync [Patially Solved ??]


> On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 00:20, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > ==== Cygwin
> > I still am unable to get anything to compile in cygwin.  I will keep
trying Monday.
>
> I managed to compile 0.9.5 (found on
> http://rproxy.samba.org/download.html) on cygwin with the latest
> distribution (downloaded three days ago). I had to add the inittypes.h
> to /usr/local/includes (IIRC) to get it working, like described in the
> rdiff-backup FAQ. Finally, I also had to copy the shared lib to /lib so
> that the rdiff-backup would work.
>
> It seems to me that the cygwin distribution behaves very strange
> sometimes - I tried to install it yesterday on my machines, but get
> different shop-stopper bugs like gcc not working ('could not find
> cc1.exe'), make not working (don't remember the exact error message).
>
> If you want, I can send you the shared library (librsync.a) so you can
> do preliminary tests without the hassles of cygwin instabilities.
>
> regards
> nicola
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> rdiff-backup-users mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users
>